Véronique Filozof

Véronique Filozof (8 August 1904 – 12 January 1977) was a Swiss-born French painter, illustrator, and muralist.

Biography Filozof was born Véréna Valérie Sandreuter in Basel on 8 August 1904. Her father Rudolf Sandreuter was a blacksmith and musician, and her great-uncle was the painter Hans Sandreuter. Filozof was educated at the School of Fine Arts in Basel alongside her sister Élisabeth and her brother Hans. The following year, in 1923, Filozof married Paul Modin, a school administrator. Filozof and Modin lived in Mulhouse and had two children Paulette and Jean-Guy, before divorcing in 1937. In 1940, Filozof married Georges Filozof (1896–1974), a mining engineer of Polish descent.

Following the German Occupation of France in June 1940, Filozof fled Mulhouse with her husband and children to Elne, where she became involved with Swiss Red Cross efforts at . In 1941, Filozof moved to Sarlat-la-Canéda for her husband's work and established a sewing workshop to support local families and the French Resistance network 'Bataillons de la Liberté du Sud'. During this time Filozof formed close ties with the poet .

In 1946, the family returned to Mulhouse. Filozof began to devote herself to painting, and established an artistic space in her attic. Decorating the façade of the Le Médoc office building, the mural depicts iconic elements of Bordeaux's landscape and culture and includes quotes from Simone Weil, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Aristote, Jean Cocteau, Montesquieu, Antoine de Saint Exupéry and . and a mural panel, Jérusalem au temps du Christ, in the Temple Saint-Jean in Mulhouse (1973). The nursery school "École maternelle publique Véronique Filozof" in Mulhouse, and the Cour Véronique Filozof in Sarlat-la-Canéda are named after Filozof.

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